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The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Transportation You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Transportation
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Transportation What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Transportation
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Transportation I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Transportation
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Transportation "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Transportation
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Transportation To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Transportation
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Transportation Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Transportation
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Transportation
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Transportation "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Transportation The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Transportation
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Transportation Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Transportation
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Transportation The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Transportation
